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Maryland will soon begin recalling license plates with the Confederate flag on them, after a federal judge on Thursday lifted an 18-year-old injunction keeping them in circulation, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said. The state was stymied in its attempts to pull the Sons of Confederate Veterans plates in the 1990s when the U.S. District…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen Back in June, the pumpkin carving process began for New York’s most intense pumpkin fest, The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-On-Hudson. The spectacular display features thousands (somewhere around 10,000 this year) of illuminated pumpkins, all carved by a small team…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at Uber this summer, trying (and failing) to set a cap on the number of its for-hire cars operating in the city. The ride-share service has drawn criticism on a number of issues — including its labor practices — but the mayor said his main concern…
The new owner of the Village Voice is keen to invest in the storied New York City weekly newspaper, he told Billy Penn on the afternoon that news broke of his acquisition. Peter T. Barbey, the 57-year-old CEO of the Reading Eagle Company, said his plans are to add staff until the weekly is “as…
paging_filter The Village Voice has been sold to a new owner, marking the beginning of the latest chapter in the history of the storied weekly newspaper co-founded by Norman Mailer in 1955. Voice Media Group announced Monday that it has sold its flagship title to a company controlled by investor Peter D. Barbey of the…
HEY, IT’S FRIDAY, LET’S GET DRUNK, LET’S GO TO THE BAR, LET’S DO AWESOME SHOOTERS AND SIT AROUND AND SOAK UP ONE ANOTHER’S AWESOMENESS, TGIF AMIRITE? Oh, huh. pic.twitter.com/9zipHDsv1J — Dave Price (@DavePriceTV) October 9, 2015 Indeed, an opening of the heavens beckons. The National Weather Service has issued a “Severe Thunderstorm Watch” that’s…
Right, the townhouse a developer paid two holdout tenants $25 million to leave. (Google Maps) Two tenants who refused to move out of their apartment in a 10th Avenue townhouse in Manhattan hit pay dirt last year when developer Tishman Speyer agreed to pay them $25 million to scram. The pair, Gary Schwedock, 58,…
Police received a report of that a man with a gun had threatened another student, Officer Leeloni Palmiero said. No shots or injuries were immediately reported. The school, in a tweet posted shortly before 11 a.m. ET, said the college’s main campus was on lockdown because of “police activity.” “Police activity on campus. Main campus…
Venezuela, a country that is struggling to import food and keep its currency from falling to worthless lows, has just “minted” the world’s largest chocolate coin. The candy money, made to look like a one bolivar coin, weighs a massive 870 kilos [1,900 pounds] and measures six feet in diameter. It was presented to the…
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said at least nine of its staff have been killed in an overnight bombing of a hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack early on Saturday also wounded 37 people, including 19 MSF staff, the medical charity told Al Jazeera. Officials of MSF later told Reuters…